Andrei Nikolsky

Andrei Vladimirovich Nikolsky (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Никольский; 1959 in Moscow, Russia - 3 February 1995 near Waterloo, Belgium) was a Russian pianist.

After receiving his first piano lessons at the age of five, Nikolsky entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1976, where his teachers included Stanislav Neuhaus and Lev Naumov. He also studied with Hans Leygraf at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Nikolsky won second prize at the Concours Lond-Thibaud in 1979, as well as first prize at the Concours International Reine Elisabeth in 1987. He died in a car accident in 1995.

Some of his recordings include the Chopin preludes, Sonata No. 2 and Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 2

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 37113408 LCCN: no99075334 ISNI: 0000 0000 5517 3620 GND: 134799682 BNF: cb14006512j (data)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.